Dear Allyson,

Typical American friendly gesture; making dresses and writing a book about gardening!

Al-liss-son

I had mentioned a couple of things for you to get you going on a creative outlet I thought you would do great with, since you had mentioned it in your collegiate background. This is list seems intimidating but it's just me rambling on about as many details within each subject to help clarify in that section. You can ask me more too, if need be. 

1. I am going to be doing a workshop with explaining how to use a workspace, something online that helps with how you manage your projects. We can do a project together so you can learn how to navigate, use, and explore the workspace station. It helps you familiarize with working on a computer and the tools online. 

• Let me know a good date and time and we can go over that together, if you are interested.

2. The writing template to do a short book (which also can be a series) could go through copyright first, to make sure you own your own work and that nobody else can produce it but also to have it to make a book to sell if you would like. 

• Book subjects can be anything you want it to be about that are most likely to undergo modified contests, rejections, and separate results based on your style and content. Multiple factors actually. 
• I was suggesting you do a gardening book, perhaps other things if you would like - for a co-authoring I think I have a couple of tips to put in the book that could help with sharing information and collaborating on us as people, different, whatever we want it to be - because we have to protect our identity but can still make a familiarization if you want to? Personal branding goes far if you have the right image.
• I would totally want to theme this. I know your not a sport but if you tried we could make this a real fun hobby. Costumes, kids, themes for holidays, or whatever. Just to stay busy and have goals to make. I have time for it. 
• If I did a book (I am, but one for fun?), I think I would want to do a coordinate-book with mapping techniques that create educational fun with puzzles and problems/challenges with neat fun facts and stories to earn, if necessary. 
• I was thinking for this first exercise I would create a list of prompts and questions for you to fill out and send me back your responses. I am creating a form and putting it at the bottom of this page. 

3. We can work on this throughout the season. It's better to be more personal. I suggest sketching it yourself, can take a picture, and keep a gardening journal on each section of your garden. Type it up on a blog I setup for you (I can show you how to use it, if you have questions) - like this one, with your personal branding name and .blogspot.com (its free). 

4. I would prefer writing with a scientific name of researched material of plant, garden design, planting schedule, crop choice, soil care, beneficial past season in the prologue notes and omit what you have that is different, unique, within your journal as content you want to use. Compare, contrast, use advice, reference - I cannot stress that enough, SAVE ALL OF YOUR REFERENCES!

5. You should really already have an organized inventory of records. I think you should get something for that, if not some type of deduction somewhere? I think it is good to have records and I LOVE MAKING RECORDS. It is one of the more easier programs to build, but also, to keep physical if you prefer (can also be helped with) and making a filing system to reference and keep producing books. That's valuable data and experience from a living garden. You can use that for all types of themes. 

Finally, 

I am purchasing this book from a webinar I attended about how to create an ebook in 2 weeks or something, I have to look at it again - but I will be using that to steer this project, which means we will need time to collect pictures, notes, journals, other research, and raising money to help pay for costs (which I already have a separate fundraising opportunity if you want to join making bag-savers). Then writing it, editing it, and publishing it after copyright. So reading this book together ahead of time, might help with our research funneling into this book. You can read and write notes while I sew your dress? I got gold fabric for you, hopefully you like it. I also bought other colors to contrast if you want to check it out. Else, I am just doing it and letting that be a surprise.

It is a very lengthy project, so we have to commit. I am ready if you are. 

__Mischief